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Pour que la mégapole du Sud devienne la capitale du cinéma de la région
Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui · Pour que la mégapole du Sud devienne la capitale du cinéma de la région - Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'huiHô Chi Minh-Ville ambitionne de propulser l’industrie cinématographique nationale à l’échelle internationale. Elle a soumis le 3 mars sa candidature d’adhésion au Réseau des villes créatives de l’UNESCO dans le domaine du cinéma.
If you're in Denver, Colorado, you might consider checking out this exhibition.
https://www.operationbabylift.org/
And amazing story of survivors - and the discovery of origin.
Operation BabyliftOperation Babylift CollectionOperation Babylift Collection project compiles and organizes adoptee records and documents into a consolidated archival resource.
Hô Chi Minh-Ville ambitionne de devenir la première ville cinématographique d’Asie du Sud-Est
Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui · Hô Chi Minh-Ville ambitionne de devenir la première ville cinématographique d’Asie du Sud-Est - Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'huiHô Chi Minh-Ville élabore une demande d’adhésion au Réseau des villes créatives de l’UNESCO (UCCN) dans le domaine du film, selon le Service municipal de la culture et des sports.
Obesity, high salt intake remain alarming issues in Ho Chi Minh City
Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui · Obesity, high salt intake remain alarming issues in Ho Chi Minh City - Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'huiHo Chi Minh City continues to face alarming rates of obesity and excessive salt consumption, with increasing numbers across different age groups, according to the city's Center for Disease Control (HCDC).
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Nguyễn Thị Bình is a granddaughter of the Nationalist leader Phan Chu Trinh. She grew up in a land that had been under French rule since 1858. The country’s resources were plundered, & the people exploited as cheap labour & reduced to grinding poverty. So determined were the French to maintain their colonial hold at any cost, they collaborated in power-sharing with Japanese #fascist #occupiers who brought horror & starvation from 1940-1945.
Despite this, led by the #VietMinh Front, people of Vietnam triumphed in the #AugustRevolution of 1945 & the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (DRV) was declared on September 2nd. Democratic elections took place in January 1946 but French troops, with the open support of the US & Britain, attacked the new Viet Minh administration in the south of the country & the #WarOfResistance against #France began.
Binh studied French at Lycée Sisowath in Cambodia & worked as a teacher during the #French #colonisation of Vietnam. She joined #VietnamCommunistParty in 1948. Upon joining, she immediately began work as a #grassroots #AntiColonial organiser. From 1945-1951, she took part in intellectual protest movements against French #colonists. She was arrested & jailed between 1951-1953 in #Saigon by the French #colonial authority in Vietnam. She was repeatedly interrogated under torture & sentenced to death but was reprieved & released in very poor health in 1954.
Upon release from prison, Binh went north to work in #Hanoi for the National #WomensUnion. Her job took her to many localities where she witnessed first-hand the impact of #colonialism & the French War on ordinary people & especially women & children.
1954 was a year of victory for the Vietnamese army. The defeated French were forced to sign the #GenevaAccords recognising the independence, sovereignty & unity of Vietnam. The country was temporarily split in two at the 17th parallel, with the French moving to the south from which they would withdraw, while the Viet Minh went to the north. A general election for the government of a united country was to follow within 2 years.
But it never happened. The #USA came centre stage to ensure that the Accords were never implemented. Driven by strategic interests in the region, it made sure that Vietnam stayed divided – preventing an election that would have swept Ho Chi Minh to power with 80% support, while bankrolling & controlling the reactionary #regime of Diem-Nhu south of the 17th parallel. This regime violently suppressed all opposition, executing of thousands of Viet Minh supporters & condemning hundreds of thousands to concentration camps and prisons.
In response, the NLF (for liberation of South Vietnam & unification) was formed in 1960. Nguyen Thi Chau Sa was assigned to the Foreign Affairs Section of its Re-unification Committee & given the name Nguyen Thi Binh (Peace). From 1962 onwards, her high-profile diplomatic work, took her across the world. She represented the aspirations of the people of Vietnam in every country & forum she visited, while the world’s strongest #imperialist power made all-out war on her small country.
During the #VietnamWar, she became a member of the #Vietcong Central Committee and a vice-chairperson of the South Vietnamese #WomensLiberation Association. In 1969 she was appointed foreign minister of the Provisional #Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam. A fluent French speaker, Bình played a major role in the #ParisPeaceAccords - an agreement that was supposed to end the war & restore peace in Vietnam.
She was expected to be replaced by a male Vietcong representative after preliminary talks, but became one of the group's most visible international public figures. During this time, she was famous for representing Vietnamese women with her elegant & gracious style, and was referred to by the media as "Madame Bình". She was also referred to as the "Viet Cong Queen" by Western media.
After the war, she was appointed Minister of Education of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 1982-1986; the first female minister ever in the history of Vietnam. Binh was a member of the Central Committee of Vietnam's Communist Party from 1987-1992. She was the Deputy Chair of the Party's Central Foreign Affairs Commission & Chair of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee. The National Assembly elected her twice to position of Vice President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for the terms 1992–1997 & 1997–2002.
Bình has authored several op-eds, including a one on the state newspaper Nhân Dân in which she voiced concerns that the current personnel policy of the Communist Party of Vietnam have allowed some "incompetent and opportunistic" individuals to enter the party's apparatus. She also criticized the Party's focus on increasing membership at the expense of "quality."
From March 2009-2014, she served as a member of the support committee of #RussellTribunal on #Palestine.
Madame Bình became a source of inspiration & namesake for Madame Binh Graphics Collective, a #RadicalLeft all-women poster, printmaking, & street art collective based in NYC from 1970s-1980s.
Many Americans in the #AntiWar movement were proud to wear T-shirts printed with the portrait of "Madame Binh". By then, she had become a symbol for female soldiers of the legitimacy of Vietnam's efforts.
Madame Bình has been awarded many prestigious awards & honours, including the Order of Ho Chi Minh & Resistance Order (First Class). In 2021, President of Vietnam Nguyễn Xuân Phúc awarded her the 75-year Party Membership Commemorative Medal.
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam, the Government of Vietnam commissioned the official portraits for 12 former foreign ministers from 1945-2020. Nguyễn Thị Bình was included among them as the only South Vietnamese foreign minister & the only woman.
Ref: Nguyen Thi Binh". Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography (3rd ed.). Boston: Northeastern University Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-55553-421-9
Ref: Triantafillou, Eric (3 May 2012). "Graphic Uprising". The Brooklyn Rail.
Ref: https://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/about-rtop/patrons.html
Ref: Hy V. Luong (2003), Postwar Vietnam: dynamics of a transforming society, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 0847698653
Nguyen Huu Tho (July 10, 1910 - Dec. 24, 1996) was the chairman of the National Liberation Front #NLF - the South Vietnamese political organization formed in 1960 in opposition to the U.S. backed Saigon government.
He was born in the same Chinatown district (Cho Lon in Saigon) that my patriarch family lived & where we had our large incense factory.
The son of a rubber-plantation manager who was later killed during the First #Indochina War (1946–54), Nguyen Huu Tho studied law in Paris in the 1930s. Returning to #Saigon, he set up practice, remaining politically inactive until 1949, when he led student demonstrations against the French; he also organized protests in 1950 against the patrolling of the southern Vietnamese coast by U.S. warships. He was imprisoned & won popular acclaim for his prolonged hunger strike in protest of the war.
After the Geneva Agreements divided Vietnam into northern & southern zones in 1954, Tho cooperated with the southern regime of Ngo Dinh Diem until he was arrested for advocating nationwide elections on reunification. Except for a short period in 1958, Tho remained in prison from 1954-1961, when he escaped with aid of some of his anti-Diem followers. These men, who had recently formed the NLF, made Tho, a noncommunist, provisional & then full-time chairman of the NLF.
In 1965, he delivered an anti-imperialist speech, a booklet was later published in English, entitled SPEECH. His title was given as: President of the Presidium of the Consultative Council of the South Viet Nam National Front for Liberation on the 5th founding anniversary of the NFL.
Tho served as a figurehead leader. Real power in the NLF was held by its military arm, the #VietCong & by veteran communists who reported directly to the North Vietnamese leadership. Tho helped attract a wide spectrum of South Vietnamese supporters to the NLF. In June 1969, the NLF established a Provisional Revolutionary Government with Huynh Tan Phat as president & Nguyen Huu Tho as chairman of its advisory council. The PRG became the government of South Vietnam in April 1975, when Saigon government’s troops surrendered to the North Vietnamese & PRG forces. Tho was made a vice president of Vietnam in 1976, a post he held until 1980, when he became acting president. In 1981, Tho was made vice president of the Council of State & chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly.
Thọ was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize (1983–84).
Between 1988 & 1994, he was chairman of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front (Mặt trận Tổ quốc Việt Nam), an umbrella organization for mass organizations in the country.
Ref: Jacques Dalloz : Dictionnaire de la Guerre d'Indochine, Paris, 2006, S. 171
Christopher E. Goscha : Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War (1945–1954), Kopenhagen, 2011, S. 323
Ref: Kiernan, Ben. How Pol Pot Came to Power. London: Verso, 1985. pp. 170-71.
Ref: Nghia M. Vo - Saigon: A History (2011)
Nguyễn Văn Trỗi (1 February 1940 – 15 October 1964) was a #Vietnamese #revolutionary & member of the NLF (National Liberation Front). He gained notoriety after being captured by ARVN forces while trying to assassinate US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara & Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. who were visiting South Vietnam in May 1964.
Trỗi became the first publicly executed member of the NLF. His execution was filmed, and he remained defiant to the end. His last words before his execution in #Saigon :
"You are journalists and so you must be well informed about what is happening. It is the Americans who have committed aggression on our country, it is they who have been killing our people with planes and bombs ... I have never acted against the will of my people. It is against the Americans that I have taken action."
When a priest offered Trỗi absolution, he refused, saying: "I have committed no sin. It is the Americans who have sinned." As the first shots were fired, he called out: "Long live Vietnam!"
His wife wrote a biography book on his short but brave life. Phan Thi Quyen (c. 1965) Nguyen van troi tel qu'il etait (Nguyễn Văn Trỗi As He Was).
Les ambitions cinématographiques de Hô Chi Minh-Ville
https://vietnam-aujourdhui.info/2024/12/29/les-ambitions-cinematographiques-de-ho-chi-minh-ville/
Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui · Les ambitions cinématographiques de Hô Chi Minh-Ville - Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'huiForte de son dynamisme cinématographique, Hô Chi Minh-Ville est à la croisée des chemins : elle dispose d'un potentiel considérable pour devenir un centre cinématographique régional et international, mais doit relever de nombreux défis pour assurer la pérennité de son industrie.
Hô Chi Minh-Ville : vers une flotte de bus 100% verte d’ici 2030
Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui · Hô Chi Minh-Ville : vers une flotte de bus 100% verte d'ici 2030 - Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'huiLes nouvelles lignes de bus qui ouvriront à Hô Chi Minh-Ville à partir de 2025 seront toutes électriques. À partir de 2030, 100% des bus locaux utiliseront de l’électricité ou d’autres énergies vertes.
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Vietnam : le métro de Hô Chi Minh-Ville inauguré après des années d’attente
Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui · Vietnam : le métro de Hô Chi Minh-Ville inauguré après des années d’attente - Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'huiApprouvé en 2007, le projet ne s’est concrétisé qu'à partir de 2012 avec le début de la construction. Suivant un parcours de 20 kilomètres, il a coûté 1,7 milliard de dollars.
My Mom had been sharing many stories about how my Dad was a human rights activist in his teens into his 20s - while attending university for veterinary career(he graduated with full honours). Dad used to gather up fellow youths & young adults in #Saigon to organize for protests. He was branded an enemy of the state & was arrested/detained/tortured multiple times before I was born. Mom said that I take after my Dad in our shared passion & determination to try & make progressive changes in the world.
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Listening to:
https://trucmai.bandcamp.com/album/s-i-g-n?label=3187674626
Not many cities in the world are gifted with a timeless anthem of their own. We all know “New York, New York”, a song widely known across its city borders. For many Vietnamese, the beautiful Cha Cha Cha tune “Sài Gòn” has a similar reputation.
The tune was written by Hanoi-born composer Y-Van. Like many of his generation, he moved to the South in 1954 after The Geneva Accords partitioned Vietnam temporarily into two states. There he became one of the most famous and prolific songwriters in South Vietnamese pop music. His revered songs are still sung and covered to this day.
“Sài Gòn”, which he wrote in 1965, was recorded for the first time by Saigonese-born singer Trúc Mai for the Sóng Nhạc label. It is one of his most iconic compositions and has been recorded countless times since.
Trúc Mai rose to prominence during the late 1950s as a popular headliner in the cabaret circuit of Saigon, earning her the title, "Nữ Hoàng Mambo" (the Queen of the Mambo). Her reputation helped make the 1965 recording of “Sài Gòn” an instant hit. It was so successful that it was one of only a few songs to appear on multiple 7” vinyl releases.
However, that same year, Trúc Mai took a seven-year hiatus from the music industry to take care of her family. But she returned in 1972 to record “Sài Gòn” again, this time with another producer, Duy Khánh – also a successful singer and musician. They released this track on his “reel 2 reel” tape series, “Cỏ May”.
After the war ended in 1975, Trúc Mai and her family left Vietnam to begin their new lives in the United States, where she continued her successful music career with the overseas community.
The Sài Gòn sung about in the song refers geographically to today's Districts 1 & 3 in Ho Chi Minh City, the name given in 1975, after reunification. But colloquially, the city is still affectionately called Sài Gòn by many of its residents, and even the airport retains the ‘SGN’ designation as its abbreviation.
Despite being recorded over 55 years ago, the unbroken popularity of this life-affirming ode to the city is proven when, whether in Sài Gòn or Hanoi; the south or north; whether young or old, when the song plays, everyone immediately joins in to sing along to the chorus…Saigon đẹp lắm Saigon ơi! Saigon ơi! (Saigon is so beautiful! Saigon oi! Saigon oi!)
The two pre 75 mixes are supplemented with an edit by Saigon Supersound producer Jan Hagenkötter who tries to preserve the vibes of the original and at the same time to wrap it in a contemporary garment.
La ligne de métro Bên Thanh-Suôi Tiên gratuite au premier mois d’exploitation commerciale
Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui · La ligne de métro Bên Thanh-Suôi Tiên gratuite au premier mois d'exploitation commerciale - Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'huiLors de sa 20e session, le Conseil populaire de Hô Chi Minh-Ville a approuvé mercredi 11 décembre une résolution sur la politique de soutien aux utilisateurs des transports publics (bus et tramway) et de soutien financier aux activités de ces moyens de transport.